"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."
"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."